GCSE Film Studies · key term

Prop

Definition

An object within a scene that contributes to the action or helps communicate meaning about characters and their world.

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Component 1, Component 2

Mise-en-scène concerns the visible elements arranged within a film scene: its setting, props, costume and make-up, together with the performers' positioning and body language. Pronounced roughly ‘meez-ahn-sen’, the term comes from French theatre and means ‘putting into the scene’.
Revise: Mise-en-scène
An inanimate object an actor interacts with in a film. A key prop has particular significance for character or narrative.
Revise: Questions 1 and 2: the stepped questions

1
Classify an object by its function: clothing is costume, but an item of clothing can also function as a prop when it becomes important to the action.
2
A prop is not the same as costume. A genre convention is a recognisable ingredient of a genre, not the genre’s name.
3
Follow the exact wording: ‘including lighting’ requires lighting; ‘costume and props’ requires both; ‘and/or’ allows either or both.

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